Yep - I'm an immature butt-head arsewipe. There we go. I hope you feel better now I've admitted it to you!
You are RIGHT!
As well my kid will probably go to jail, and it will be my fault because I didn't have the education or maturity to help him behave himself when I tortured him with a Disney trip.
My parents should have raised me better I guess.
Anyhow.
We had some very rough moments, both him and is older sis. They are both good kids (even though they can be butt heads at times) however, there is some big time sibling rivalry we are working on, this also takes place at home. In fact this really confirmed we need to see a family counselor about that (maybe we should also talk about their fragile egos from all the name calling.)
That said, we also had some very good times. The trip did seem to get better as we went.
There were time outs, I ended up pulling him from the park at lunch one day and he had to stay in bed until dinner, he had a big sleep and he was much better after that with just a few warnings. We also needed to separate as a family on some days. That seemed to work out the best. Honestly one-on-one without each other they are angels. My daughter and I are also more Disney-philes than my son and his Dad, so several days they went to the pool at the hotel and met us at dinner. We also used the kids-club twice, which we had already planned.
I also did the immature and irresponsible action of purchasing a bottle of wine I sipped a few evenings. LOL.
Wine is the equivalent to a pain reliever when you have kids.
I have shared our "once in a lifetime we must get these kids to Disney" family vacation before, but I'll tell you about it too. We saved forever to drag the bunch of hooligans to Disney over Christmas and New Years. 10 days. 10 long days! We started in Daytona beach and toured the area attractions before heading to WDW. Only the MK and FW in Epcot at that time. Buddy booked dinner shows, character meals, we stayed at the CR. By the time we were back at the airport the flight was overbooked. The airlines were offering great incentives to get bumped, and since there were six of us, that would have added up. My poor husband said there was not an incentive large enough to spend one extra second trapped with these kids. I had already showed him a promotion that we missed out on....3 days free on the Bug Red Boat when you booked 4 days onsite. He told me it was a good thing, he would have tossed all 4 of them overboard!
The lines in the MK were so long, and by the time we would arrive at the attraction fellow tortured guests knew my oldest sons name. The others took turns with their own "issues", the youngest sang (bellowed) along with Roseanne Cash every time she was on the radio, my DH nephew ate us out of house and home,....
By the time we got to WDW buddy and I were barely speaking, you know... All that fun we were having! Lol!!!
Anyway, here we are, still reminding them that after all we spent on dining they told everyone the best part of the entire trip was chocolate chip pancakes at ihop, and the only thing those monsters ate at The Top of the World was a box of Rice Krispies.
After all that, my oldest... Now 41.... Told me that I scarred him for life! Really?????? I figure that after that trip he was lucky he had a life!
Duckidee- it gets better! We did take more family vacations, but never again to WDW until my dgd came along and we all wanted to share that with her... Well all except the scarred guy! Lol! He skipped WDW.
Some were great and some not so much. On one Hampton Beach trip my sis il came with us, DH was seasonal so no summer vacations for him!
She lasted one day before she was sucking down mimosas like they were water! And here I had thought the kids were really good! lol!!!
